Volume 1 — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
Reading edition
No. I
POEMS FIRST PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS OR PERIODICALS
The Cambridge Intelligencer.
Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the Man of Ross Sept. 27, 1794
Absence Oct. 11, 1794
Sonnet [Anna and Harland] Oct. 25, 1794
Sonnet [Genevieve] Nov. 1, 1794
To a Young Man of Fortune, &c. Dec. 17, 1796
Ode for the Last Day of the Year, 1796 Dec. 31, 1796
Parliamentary Oscillators Jan. 6, 1798
The Morning Chronicle.
To Fortune Nov. 7, 1793
Elegy [Elegy imitated from Akenside] Sept. 23, 1794
Epitaph on an Infant. 'Ere sin could blight', &c. Sept. 23, 1794
Sonnets on Eminent Characters.
i. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine Dec. 1, 1794
ii. Burke Dec. 9, 1794
iii. Priestley Dec. 11, 1794
iv. La Fayette Dec. 15, 1794
v. Kosciusko Dec. 16, 1794
vi. Pitt Dec. 23, 1794
vii. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles Dec. 26, 1794
viii. Mrs. Siddons Dec. 29, 1794
ix. To William Godwin Jan. 10, 1795
x. To Robert Southey Jan. 14, 1795
xi. To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. Jan. 29, 1795
To Lord Stanhope Jan. 31, 1795
Address to a Young Jack Ass and its tethered Mother, In Familiar Verse Dec. 30, 1794
The Watchman.
No. 1. To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution Mar. 1, 1796
No. 2. Casimir. Ad Lyram. Imitation. 'The solemn-breathing air', &c. Mar. 9, 1796
No. 3. Elegy. 'Near the lone Pile', &c. Mar. 17, 1796
The Hour when we shall meet again. 'Dim hour', &c. Mar. 17, 1796
No. 4. 'The early Year's fast-flying Vapours stray' Mar. 25, 1796
A Morning Effusion. 'Ye Gales', &c. Mar. 25, 1796
No. 5. To Mercy. 'Not always should the Tears', &c. Apr. 2, 1796
Recollection. 'As the tir'd savage', &c. Apr. 2, 1796
No. 6. Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February, 1796. 'Sweet Flower that peeping', &c. Apr. 11, 1796
No. 8. To a Primrose. 'Thy smiles I note', &c. Apr. 27, 1796
No. 9. Epitaph on an Infant. [Reprinted from the Morning Chronicle, Sept. 23, 1794.] 'Ere Sin could blight', &c. May 5, 1796
The Monthly Magazine.
On a Late Connubial Rupture, (ii, p. 647) Sept. 1796
Reflections on Entering into Active Life, (ii, p. 732.) 'Low was our pretty Cot', &c. Oct. 1796
Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers, (iv, p. 374) Nov. 1797
The Annual Register.
Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village, (xxxviii, pp. 494-5) 1796
Tranquillity, An Ode. (xliii, pp. 525-6) 1801
Stanzas Addressed to a Lady on Her Recovery from a severe attack of Pain. (The Two Founts.) (lxix, pp. 537-8) 1827
The Morning Post.
To an Unfortunate Woman in the Back Seats of the Boxes at the Theatre. 'Maiden that with sullen brow' Dec. 7, 1797
Melancholy: A Fragment Dec. 12, 1797
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue Jan. 8, 1798
The Old Man of the Alps. Mar. 8, 1798
The Raven Mar. 10, 1798
Lines Imitated from Catullus. 'My Lesbia', &c. Apr. 11, 1798
Lewti, or the Circassian Love Chaunt Apr. 13, 1798
The Recantation: An Ode Apr. 16, 1798
Moriens Superstiti. 'The hour-bell sounds', &c. May 10, 1798
A Tale. [Recantation. Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox] July 30, 1798
The British Stripling's War-Song Aug. 24, 1799
The Devil's Thoughts Sept. 6, 1799
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode Sept. 17, 1799
Lines Composed in a Concert Room Sept. 24, 1799
To a Young Lady. 'Why need I say', &c. Dec. 9, 1799
Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladié Dec. 21, 1799
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Dec. 24, 1799
A Christmas Carol Dec. 25, 1799
Talleyrand to Lord Granville Jan. 10, 1800
The Mad Monk Oct. 13, 1800
Inscription for a Seat by the Road-side, &c. Oct. 21, 1800
Alcaeus to Sappho Nov. 24, 1800
The Two Round Spaces: A Skeltoniad Dec. 4, 1800
On Revisiting the Sea Shore Sept. 15, 1801
Tranquillity, An Ode Dec. 4, 1801
The Picture, or The Lover's Resolution Sept. 6, 1802
Chamouni. The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn Sept. 11, 1802
The Keepsake Sept. 17, 1802
How seldom Friend, &c. [The Good Great Man] Sept. 23, 1802
Inscription on a Jutting Stone over a Spring Sept. 24, 1802
Dejection: An Ode Oct. 4, 1802
Ode to the Rain Oct. 7, 1802
France: An Ode Oct. 14, 1802
The Language of Birds. 'Do you ask, what the Birds say?' &c. Oct. 16, 1802
The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife Oct. 19, 1802
The Courier.
The Exchange of Hearts Apr. 16, 1804
Lines on a King-and-Emperor-making Emperor and King (Adaptation) Sept. 12, 1806
Farewell to Love. [Morning Herald, Oct. 11, 1806] Sept. 27, 1806
To Two Sisters Dec. 10, 1807
Epitaph on an Infant. 'Its milky lips', &c. Mar. 20, 1811
The Hour Glass (Adaptation) Aug. 30, 1811
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn Aug. 30, 1811
Mutual Passion (Adaptation) Sept. 21, 1811
The Friend.
[Ode to Tranquillity] No. 1, June 1, 1809
The Three Graves, A Sexton's Tale No. 6, Sept. 21, 1809
Hymn. Before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny No. 11, Oct. 26, 1809
Tis True, Idoloclastes Satyrane No. 14, Nov. 23, 1809
The Gentleman's Magazine.
Farewell to Love. (lxxxv, p. 448) 1815
Overlooked Poem by Coleridge. The Volunteer Stripling. (xxix, p. 160, N. S.) 1848
Felix Farley's Bristol Journal.
Fancy in Nubibus, or The Poet in the Clouds Feb. 7, 1818
Written on a Blank Leaf of Faulkner's Shipwreck, presented by a friend to Miss K Feb. 21, 1818
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
Fancy in Nubibus. (Vol. vi, p. 196) Nov. 1819
The poet in his lone, &c. [Apologia, &c.] (Vol. xi, p. 12) Jan. 1822
The Old Man's Sigh: A Sonnet. (Vol. xxxi, p. 956) June, 1832
Co-operative Magazine and Monthly Herald.
On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America Apr. 6, 1826
Literary Magnet.
An Impromptu on Christmas Day, &c. N. S., Vol. iii, 1827, p. 71
The Evening Standard.
Sancti Dominici Pallium May 21, 1827
The Crypt, a Receptacle for Things Past.
Job's Luck 1827, pp. 30, 31
The Literary Souvenir.
The Exchange 1826, p. 408
Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius 1827, p. 17
[Epitaphium Testamentarium] 1827, p. 17
Youth and Age 1828, p. 1
What is Life? 1829, p. 346
The Bijou, 1828.
The Wanderings of Cain. A Fragment p. 17
Work without Hope 28
Youth and Age 144
A Day Dream. 'My eyes make pictures' 146
The Two Founts 202
The Amulet.
New Thoughts on Old Subjects. The Improvisatore 1828, pp. 37-47
Three Scraps 1833, pp. 31, 32
(i) Love's Burial Place.
(ii) The Butterfly.
(iii) A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland.
New York Mirror.
Lines written in Miss Barbour's Common Place Book Dec. 19, 1829
The Keepsake.
The Garden of Boccaccio 1829, p. 282
Song, Ex Improviso, &c. 1830, p. 264
The Poet's Answer to a Lady's Question, &c. 'O'er wayward Childhood', &c. 1830, p. 279
The Athenæum.
Water Ballad Oct. 29, 1831
Friendship's Offering, 1834.
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My Baptismal Birthday 163
Fragments from the Wreck of Memory, &c.—
i. Hymn to the Earth 165
ii. English Hexameters, written during a temporary Blindness, in the Year 1799 167
iii. The Homeric Hexameter, &c. 168
iv. The Ovidian Elegiac Metre, &c. 168
v. A Versified Reflection. 'On stern Blencarthur's', &c. 168.
Love's Apparition and Evanishment 355
Lightheartednesses in Rhyme—
i. The Reproof and Reply 356
ii. In Answer to a Friend's Question. 'Her attachment may differ', &c. 359
iii. Lines to a Comic Author, on an abusive Review 359
iv. An Expectoration, &c. 'As I am (sic) Rhymer', &c. 360
Expectoration the Second. 'In Coln, a town of monks and bones' 360
The New Monthly Magazine.
The Faded Flower Aug. 1836
Dublin University Magazine.
A Stranger Minstrel 1845, xxvi, 112-13
No. II
EPIGRAMS AND JEUX D'ESPRIT FIRST PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
1. An Apology for Spencers. Watchman, No. 4, Mar. 25, 1796.
2. On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid, &c. Ibid., No. 5, April 2, 1796.
3. On an Amorous Doctor. Ibid., ibid.
4. 'Of smart pretty Fellows', &c. Ibid., p. 159.
5. On Deputy ——. M. P., Jan. 2, 1798.
6. To a Well-known Musical Critic, &c. M. P., Jan. 4, 1798.
7. Hippona. M. P., Aug. 29, 1799.
8. On a Reader of His Own Verses. M. P., Sept. 7, 1799.
9. On a Report of a Minister's Death. 'Last Monday', &c. M. P., Sept. 18, 1799.
10. 'Jem writes his Verses', &c. M. P., Sept. 23, 1799.
11. On Sir Rubicund Naso. M. P., Dec. 7, 1799.
12. Job's Luck, 1799. M. P., Sept. 26, 1801.
13. On the Sickness of a Great Minister. M. P., Oct. 1, 1799.
14. To a Virtuous Oeconomist. M. P., Oct. 28, 1799.
15. 'Jack drinks fine wines', &c. M. P., Nov. 16, 1799.
16. To Mr. Pye. M. P., Jan. 24, 1800.
17. 'If the guilt of all lying', &c. An. Anth., 1800.
18. 'O would the Baptist', &c. An. Anth., 1800.
19. Occasioned by the Former. 'I hold of all', &c. An. Anth., 1800.
20. 'As Dick and I at Charing Cross', &c. An. Anth., 1800.
21. To a Proud Parent. An. Anth., 1800.
22. Rufa. An. Anth., 1800.
23. On a Volunteer Singer. An. Anth., 1800.
24. Occasioned by the Last. 'A joke (cries Jack)', &c. An. Anth., 1800.
25. Song to be Sung by the Lovers of all the Noble Liquors, &c. M. P., Sept. 18, 1801.
26. Epitaph on a Bad Man. M. P., Sept. 22, 1801.
27. Drinking versus Thinking. M. P., Sept. 25, 1801.
28. The Wills of the Wisp. M. P., Dec. 1, 1801.
29. To a Certain Modern Narcissus. M. P., Dec. 16, 1801.
30. To a Critic. M. P., Dec. 16, 1801.
31. Always Audible. M. P., Dec. 19, 1801.
32. Pondere non Numero. M. P., Dec. 26, 1801.
33. 'To Wed a fool'. M. P., Dec. 26, 1801.
34. What is an Epigram? M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.
35. 'Charles, grave or merry', &c. Sept. 23, 1802.
36. 'An Evil Spirit's on thee, friend '. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.
37. 'Here lies the Devil', &c. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.
38. To One who Published in Print. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.
39. 'Scarce any scandal', &c. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.
40. 'Old Harpy jeers', &c. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.
41. To a Vain Young Lady. M. P., Sept. 23, 1802.
42. A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls. M. P., Sept. 27, 1802.
43. 'From me, Aurelia', &c. M. P., Oct. 2, 1802.
44. For a House-dog's Collar. M. P., Oct. 2, 1802.
45. 'In vain I praise thee', &c. M. P., Oct. 2, 1802.
46. Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser. M. P., Oct. 9, 1802.
47. A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.
48. Μωροσοφία or Wisdom in Folly. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.
49. 'Each Bond-street buck', &c. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.
50. From an old German Poet. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.
51. On the Curious Circumstance, that in the German, &c. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.
52. Spots in the Sun. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.
53. 'When Surface talks', &c. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.
54. To my Candle. The Farewell Epigram. M. P., Oct. 11, 1802.
55. The Taste of the Times. Athenæum, Jan. 9, 1904.
56. 'An Excellent Adage', &c. The Friend, No. 12, Nov. 9, 1809.
57. Epigram on the Secrecy of a Certain Lady. The Courier, Jan. 3, 1814.
58. To a Lady who requested me to write a Poem on Nothing. Gazette of Fashion, Feb. 2, 1822.
59. Authors and Publishers. News of Literature, Dec. 10, 1825.
60. Association of Ideas. Fraser's Magazine, Jan. 1835.
61. To a Child. 'Little Miss Fanny'. Athenæum, Jan. 28, 1888.
No. III
POEMS INCLUDED IN ANTHOLOGIES AND OTHER WORKS
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1. Poems, supposed to have been written. . . By Thomas Rowley,. . .1794.
Monody on the Death of Chatterton xxv
2. Poems by Francis Wrangham, M.A., 1795.
Translation of Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam, &c. 79
To Miss Brunton with the Preceding Translation.
3. Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer. By her grandson Charles Lloyd, 1796.
Sonnet. 'The Piteous sobs', &c.
4. Lyrical Ballads, 1798.
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere 1
The Foster Mother's Tale 53
The Nightingale 63
5. Lyrical Ballads (in two volumes), 1800.
Vol. I. Love [with the four poems published in 1798] 138
6. Annual Anthology, 1800.
*Lewti, or The Circassian Love-Chant 23
*To a Young Lady, on her first Appearance after a Dangerous Illness. 32
*Recantation, Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox 59
*Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest 74
*A Christmas Carol 79
To a Friend, who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry 103
This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison. A Poem, addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London 140
To W. L. Esq. while he sung a Song to Purcell's Music. 156
*The British Stripling's War-Song 173
Something childish, but very natural. Written in Germany 192
Home-Sick. Written in Germany 193
*Ode to Georgiana, Dutchess of Devonshire 212
*Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue 231
*The Raven 240
*To an unfortunate Woman. 'Sufferer, that with sullen brow' 291
[Note. Poems marked with an asterisk were reprinted from the Morning Post.]
7. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Robinson, &c. Four volumes, 1801.
A Stranger Minstrel Vol. iv, p. 141
8. Melmoth's Beauties of British Poets, 1801.
To a Young Ass 21
To a Spring in a beautiful Village 119
The Sigh 167
The Kiss 201
9. The Wild Wreath. Edited by M. E. Robinson, 1804.
The Mad Monk 142
10. The Poetical Register and Repository of the Fine Arts.
Vol. II. For 1802 (1803).
*Chamouny. The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn 308
*Inscription on a Jutting Stone over a Spring 338
*The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 354
Vol. III. For 1803 (1805).
From the German of Leasing. 'I ask'd my fair', &c. [Signed 'Harley Philadelphia'.] 274
Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of 'Contemporary Writers' 346
Vol. IV. For 1804 (1805).
The Exchange.
Vol. VI. For 1806, 1807 (1811).
On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life 365
Vol. VII. For 1808, 1809 (1812).
Fears in Solitude. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 227
France, An Ode. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 332
Frost at Midnight. By S. T. Coleridge Esq. 530
[Note. Sonnets Attempted, &c., in Vol. III, and On a Late, &c., in Vol. VI, were reprinted from the Monthly Magazine: the three poems in Vol. VII were reprinted from the quarto pamphlet of 1798, and were again set up as a small octavo pamphlet by Law & Gilbert, the printers of the Poetical Register. Vide Bibliography, No. X.]
11. Selection of Poems for Young Persons, by J. Cottle. Third edition, n. d.
Epitaph on an Infant 129
Sonnet to the River Otter 155
Domestic Peace 157
12. English Minstrelsy; being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry from the Best English Authors. Two volumes, 1810.
Vol. II.
Fragment. S. T. Coleridge ['Introduction to the Tale of the dark Ladie' as published in the Morning Post] 131
13. Poetical Class-Book. Edited by W. F. Mylius, 1810.
This Lime Tree Bower my Prison.
14. Nugæ Canoræ. Poems by Charles Lloyd, 1819.
Sonnet. 'The piteous sobs ', &c. 145
15. The British Minstrel. Glasgow, 1821.
The Three Graves
16. Castle Dangerous. By Sir W. Scott, 1832. Notes by J. G. Lockhart. Galignani, 1834.
The Knight's Tomb. 'Where is the grave', &c. 10
17. A History of . . . Christ's Hospital. By the Rev. W. Trollope, 1834.
Julia 192
18. Letters, Conversations, &c., of S. T. Coleridge. In two volumes, 1836.
Vol. I.
Farewell to Love 143
To Nature. 144
Sonnet. To Lord Stanhope 217
Vol II.
'What boots to tell how o'er his grave' 75
19. Early Recollections, &c. By Joseph Cottle, 1837.
Vol. I.
Monody on . . . Chatterton, ll. 137-54 32
To W. J. H. While playing on his flute 33
The Fox and Statesman, &c. 172
Sonnet. To Lord Stanhope 203
Written After a Walk Before Supper 209
To an unfortunate Young Woman, Whom I had known in the days of her Innocence. 'Maiden! that with sullen brow'. 213
Allegorical Lines on the same subject. 'Myrtle Leaf, that ill besped' 214
On an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 216
On an Unfortunate, &c. 217
Examples. 'O what a life', &c. 226
Another Specimen, describing Hexameters, &c. 226
Another Specimen. 'In the Hexameter', &c. 227
The English Duodecasyllable. 'Hear my beloved', &c. 227
Foster-Mother's Tale 235
To a Friend, [Charles Lloyd (sic)] who had declared his intention, &c., ll. 17-35 245
Lines Addressed to Joseph Cottle 283
'As oft mine eye', &c. [The Silver Thimble] 236
Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers 290
To the Author of the Ancient Mariner 293
Vol. II.
Five 'Epigrams, translated . . . from the German' 65-6
My Love. 'I ask'd my love', &c. 67
Joan of Arc, Book the Second. 4o, 1796 (including the lines claimed by S. T. C.) 241-52
20. The Book of Gems. Edited by S. C. Hall, 1838.
The Garden of Boccaccio 51
Love 52
The Nightingale 53
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode, &c. 58
Recollections of Love 59
21. Memoirs of William Wordsworth. In two volumes, 1851.
Vol. I.
English Hexameters. 'William, my teacher', &c. 139
22. An Old Man's Diary. By J. Payne Collier, 1871, 2.
My Godmother's Beard Part I, pp. 34, 35.
Epigram. 'A very old proverb commands', &c.
Epitaph on Sir James Mackintosh. [The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone] Part I, pp. 61, 62.
A Character. 'A Bird who for his other sins' (15 lines) Part IV, p. 57.
23. Unpublished letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the Rev. John Prior Estlin: Communicated to the Philobiblon Society.
To An Unfortunate Princess. [On a Late Connubial, &c.] 20
Lines Addressed to J. Horne Tooke. 'Britons! when last', &c. 22
24. Letters from the Lake Poets. . . To Daniel Stuart, 1889.
Alcaeus to Sappho 16
25. Memorials of Coleorton. Edited by W. Knight. Two vols., 1887.
Vol. I.
Mont Blanc, The Summit of the Vale of Chamouny, An Hour before Sunrise—A Hymn. [As sent to Sir George Beaumont.] 26
To William Wordsworth. Composed for the greater part on the same night after the finishing of his recitation of the Poem in thirteen Books, on the Growth of his own Mind. [As sent to Sir G. Beaumont, Jan. 1807.]
26. Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics. Edited by F. T. Palgrave 1896.
Love 199
Kubla Khan 308
Youth and Age 323
No. IV
Poems first printed or reprinted in Literary Remains, 1836.
Vol. I.
The Fall or Robespierre 1
Julia 33
'—I yet remain' (By W. L. Bowles) 34
To the Rev W. J. Hort 35
To Charles Lamb ('Thus far my scanty brain', &c.) 36
To the Nightingale 38
To Sara ('The stream', &c.) 39
To Joseph Cottle 40
Casimir ('The solemn-breathing air', &c.) 41
Darwiniana ('Dim Hour', &c.) 43
'The Early Year's fast-flying', &c. [Ver perpetuum]. 44
To a Primrose 47
On the Christening of a Friend's Child 48
Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles, &c. 50
Translation 50
Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie 50
Epilogue to the Rash Conjuror 52
Psyche 53
Complaint ('How seldom Friend', &c.) 53
An Ode to the Rain 54
Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's . . . Paraphrase of the Gospels 56
Israel's Lament, &c. 57
Sentimental 59
The Alternative 59
The Exchange 59
What is Life! 60
Inscription for a Time-Piece 60
Επιτάφιον αὐτογραπτόν 60
Poems and Poetical Fragments.
'My Lesbia', &c. 274
'Pity, mourn in plaintive tones' 274
Moriens superstiti 275
Morienti superstes 275
The Stripling's War Song. Imitated from Stolberg 276
Eighteen Fragments from Note book (1795-8) 277-81
'I mix in life, and labour to seem free.' [To ——] 280
Farewell to Love 280
'Within these circling hollies', &c. [An Angel Visitant] 280
Grant me a Patron 281
Poems first printed or reprinted in Essays on His Own Times, 1850.
Vol. III.
Recantation. Illustrated in the story of the Mad Ox 963
Parliamentary Oscillators 969
The Devil's Thoughts 972
The British Stripling's War Song 988
Tranquillity. An Ode 991
The Day Dream. From an Emigrant to his absent Wife 993
Mutual Passion 995
The Alienated Mistress ('If love be dead', &c.) 997
To a lady (''Tis not the lily', &c.) 997
A Thought suggested by the View of Saddleback, &c. 997
L'Envoy to 'Like a Lone Arab' ('In vain we', &c.) 998